Download and installation
=========================

The current release is version |version|.

Packaged versions
-----------------

You can download it `from the Python Package Index
<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pygments>`_.  For installation of packages from
PyPI, we recommend `Pip <http://www.pip-installer.org>`_, which works on all
major platforms.

Under Linux, most distributions include a package for Pygments, usually called
``pygments`` or ``python-pygments``.  You can install it with the package
manager as usual.

Development sources
-------------------

We're using the `Mercurial <http://selenic.com/mercurial>`_ version control
system.  You can get the development source using this command::

    hg clone http://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/pygments-main pygments

Development takes place at `Bitbucket
<http://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/pygments-main>`_, you can browse the source
online `here <http://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/pygments-main/src>`_.

The latest changes in the development source code are listed in the `changelog
<http://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/pygments-main/src/tip/CHANGES>`_.

.. Documentation
   -------------

.. XXX todo

   You can download the <a href="/docs/">documentation</a> either as
      a bunch of rst files from the Mercurial repository, see above, or
      as a tar.gz containing rendered HTML files:</p>
      <p><a href="/docs/download/pygmentsdocs.tar.gz">pygmentsdocs.tar.gz</a></p>